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Pedro Labarta @labarta

Who is Pedro Labarta ? - is a digital Interactive Strategist, thatt start working back in 1995 on the Internet media. He has been responsable to open several international companies in Latin America like AOL, Vizury and Brand Networks. Also Labarta it´s the founder of the Amipci and IAB Mexico.
Mr. Labarta is highly motivated, entrepreneurial person to lead interactive media and take capabilities in this arena to the next level.
Understands the convergence between the Internet, TV, streaming media, print and transactional business to position as interactive strategy leader that build business.

With more than 2 billion active users worldwide, and 80 million monthly active users in Mexico alone, the social media giant is boosting revenue at a faster pace than expected. An important part of Facebook’s efforts and investments are going into the creation of a major video advertising platform.

What: Connecting any device to the Internet. Why It matters: Because although exact figures are not yet available (since it is a new trend), the fact is that advertising will become a critical point to understanding the user. It will be like doing re-targeting, except it will be directed at things. The concept behind IOT […]

Six years after Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, CEO and CTO of Snap Inc., respectively, developed their image exchange application at Stanford University, Snapchat has become a mainstay of the millennials’ social life—successfully evolving from a scorned application for sending fleeting photos to a messaging platform with new content formats.

More and more people are using digital platforms to communicate, from Whatsapp and Telegram, to Facebook Messenger and Google Hangouts. Last year, a new player joined the market: the chatbot, which is fast becoming an important interface for the user as well as a fundamental mode of interaction between companies and their customers. Portada’s digital media correspondent Pedro Labarta explains how chatbots should develop further.

With Pinterest’s arrival in Australia, New Zealand and Ireland through third-party platforms, the social network can begin selling advertisements in the Asia-Pacific market. This is exciting news for marketers in Latin America who are awaiting Pinterest’s arrival in the region.

Apps are at their peak and we will be seeing many ad-tech companies developing specific apps for each market under one same platform. As a result, mobile app producers will have to increase the current benefits of existing apps. Here are our 4 top mobile app predictions for 2017.

Customers can protect their personal data and monetize it, entering into a one-on-one relationship with brands through a technology called "smart contracts". Smart contracts allow users to enter into data sharing agreements with brands that are “securely stored on the block chain along with the detailed terms and conditions,”